Grammy nominations 2024: SZA dominates with nine nominations as Taylor Swift breaks record
The nominations for the 66th Grammy Awards have finally landed, with the Academy adding three new categories to its 94 overall categories for 2024.
Taylor Swift, SZA, Olivia Rodrigo and Miley Cyrus, as predicted, are dominating many of the top categories.
“Kill Bill” musician SZA is the most nominated artist this year with her album SOS and its songs scoring nods for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best R&B Performance and Best Melodic Rap Performance.
Meanwhile, Taylor Swift has broken the record for the most nominations for Song of the Year in Grammy history, thanks to her song “Anti-Hero” from last year’s album, Midnights.
Female artists have dominated many of the categories this year, including Record and Song of the Year.
The ceremony itself will take place on 4 February 2024.
Key Points
Grammy Awards 2024: The full list of nominees
All of the Grammy Award winners from last year’s ceremony
Read The Independent’s review of ‘Barbie: The Album’ as it's predicted to lead nominations
Take a look back at last year’s Grammy Award winners
10:35 , Ellie Muir
Welcome to our live coverage of the 66th Grammy Awards nominations.
As we anticipate the official announcement at 3.45pm this afternoon, let’s take a look back at last year’s winners...
If you cast your mind back to February, you might remember the shock that surrounded the Best Album winner. Harry Styles took home the trophy with his third album, Harry’s House, but members of the audience were heard shouting Beyoncé’s name, since many believed she was snubbed in that category.
Nevertheless, Beyoncé became the most awarded artist in the history of the Grammys, after winning in four separate categories for tracks on her celebratory album Renaissance. Meanwhile, Viola Davis became the third Black woman in history to achieve EGOT status, after she won a Grammy for her performance of the audiobook for her memoir Finding Me at the Premiere Ceremony.
Lizzo won Best Record for her song “About Damn Time” and Adele won Best Pop Solo Performance for “Easy On Me”.
Take a look back at last year’s winners:
The full list of winners at this year’s Grammys
Who’s going to be nominated for the 2024 Grammy Awards?
10:45 , Ellie Muir
The Independent’s music editor, Roisin O’Connor, takes a look at the artists and albums we’re likely to see nominated this afternoon:
Who’s going to be nominated for the 2024 Grammy Awards?
Will the Barbie soundtrack dominate the Grammy nominations?
10:50 , Ellie Muir
Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa and Sam Smith were all featured on Barbie: The Album. But will it be favoured by the Recording Academy?
In his review of the movie soundtrack, Adam White wrote: “Nostalgia powers much of this album, which was curated by Mark Ronson from an artist wishlist he and Gerwig put together during production of the film.”
“Unusually, the bigger names on Barbie: The Album are the most underwhelming. Dua Lipa’s disco number “Dance the Night” is a flat imitation of far better tracks on her Future Nostalgia record.”
Read The Independent’s review of Barbie: The Album below:
The Barbie soundtrack is as erratic as the movie that inspired it – review
Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘GUTS’ could be nominated for Best Record, Best Album or Best Song
11:24 , Ellie Muir
Olivia Rodrigo was 18 years old when she became the youngest person to debut atop the US Billboard 100 chart. The singer and former Disney Channel star, now 20, released her second album GUTS in September, which is now predicted to be in the running for several Grammy nomination categories.
The Independent’s chief albums critic, Helen Brown, wrote that in GUTS, Rodrigo revels in “an even angrier, wittier, rockier mood” than in her debut album Sour.
Read the full review of GUTS below:
Olivia Rodrigo is even angrier, wittier and rockier on second album GUTS – review
Meet Raye, who could be nominated for Best New Artist
11:45 , Ellie Muir
Annabel Nugent met London singer Raye just after she had been released from the clutches of her label. The pair had an emotional discussion about artistic autonomy, learning to forgive and finally releasing her debut album.
Find out more about Raye, who could be in the running for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards, below:
Raye: ‘I’m a woman of colour who is fed up with being controlled and manipulated’
Meet the bedroom pop singer and Best New Artist potential nominee Gracie Abrams
11:59 , Ellie Muir
LA-based artist Gracie Abrams met Annabel Nugent last year. They spoke about why the 24-year-old chose a different path to her Hollywood parents and has already developed her own devoted fanbase.
Read the full interview below:
Meet Gracie Abrams, the pop singer with fans in Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish
Foo Fighters review, But Here We Are: Band’s 11th album is a poignant reflection on grief
12:15 , Ellie Muir
One year after the sudden death of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, the band channelled that grief into their latest record But Here We Are. It’s predicted that the band could be up for a Best Album nomination at the Grammys.
In her four-star review of the album Roisin O’Connor, she writes: “As a tribute, and a farewell, it could hardly be better.”
Read the full review here:
Foo Fighters’ new album But Here We Are is a poignant reflection on grief – review
Doja Cat, Scarlet review: She may troll her fans, but the rapper has never sounded more serious
12:30 , Ellie Muir
Rapper Doja Cat has spent the best part of the year trying to shake off her viral TikTok beginnings. Her latest album Scarlet, and her hit track “Paint the Town Red” feel like an active defiance of that trajectory.
In her four-star review of Scarlet, Roisin O’Connor: “Possibly sick of being told she is too pop to be considered a quote-unquote real rapper, Doja Cat ditches her brighter, manic sound of old – exemplified by past tracks like the 2019 TikTok sensation “Say So” – and returns with something darker, more brooding.”
Read the full review below:
Doja Cat may troll her fans but on Scarlet, she is more serious than ever – review
Miley Cyrus’s “Flowers” expected to lead Best Song nominations
12:45 , Ellie Muir
Miley Cyrus’s poppy, post-breakup single “Flowers” became an earworm hit earlier this year. It could be up for Best Song, or her album, Endless Summer Vacation, could be in the running for Best Record.
In her four-star review of the album, Helen Brown writes that Endless Summer Vacation is a “lovely long bask in Cyrus’s maturing talent”.
Read the full review below:
Endless Summer Vacation is a lovely bask in Miley Cyrus’s maturing talent – review
Taylor Swift could be nominated for Best Album, Best Song or Record of the Year for her album ‘Midnights'
13:00 , Ellie Muir
Taylor Swift is gunning for a record seventh nomination for Song of the Year, which would mean she overtakes Paul McCartney and Lionel Richie as the most nominated artist in the category.
Helen Brown praises Swift’s “feline vocal stealth and assured lyrical control” in her review of Midights.
Read the full review below:
Midnights is Taylor Swift’s darkest and most cryptic album yet - review
Meet Reneé Rapp, the ‘Mean Girls: The Musical’ star who could be a Best New Artist nominee
13:30 , Ellie Muir
The actor and musician spoke to Annabel Nugent earlier this year about releasing her debut album, leaving The Sex Lives of College Girls and the one time on Mean Girls: The Musical she wished she had spoken up.
Read the full interview with Reneé Rapp below:
Reneé Rapp on protecting Drew Barrymore on live TV, coming out, and her top 10 debut
Lana Del Rey predictions: Best Song, Best Record or Album of the Year
13:45 , Ellie Muir
Lana Del Rey, already a six-time Grammy nominee, returned with her latest album earlier this year, titledYou Know There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.
That number could rise this afternoon when the Grammy Awards announce Best Record or Album of the Year.
Annabel Nugent writes in her four-star review of You Know There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd: “Across eight records and 11 years, Del Rey has built a world and iconography of her own. Hers is one of cherry cola cans, white sundresses, sycamore trees, seedy dive bars and American flags that fly both defiantly and depressingly.”
“To hear Del Rey tell it, Ocean Blvd is “straight vibing”, an exquisitely sung account of her innermost thoughts.”
Read the full review below:
Lana Del Rey’s ninth album is alluring, introspective and a little long – review
We could be in for a woman-dominated nominee list
14:15 , Ellie Muir
Predicting this year’s nominees, The Independent’s music editor, Roisin O’Connor writes that female acts have largely dominated the conversation in the past 12 months: from Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour to Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour.
“Rihanna headlined the Super Bowl in February, during which she sent heads spinning with the most dramatic pregnancy reveal in living memory, while Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish were among the highlights on the soundtrack of another cultural landmark: the Barbie Movie,” writes O’Connor.
Could 2024 be the Grammy’s Year of Women?
Read more below:
Who’s going to be nominated for the 2024 Grammy Awards?
Olivia Rodrigo review, Eventim Apollo: A transportive Noughties pop-punk dream made real
14:45 , Ellie Muir
As it’s predicted Olivia Rodrigo could lead nominations, let’s take a look at what she’s like when performing live...
In Annabel Nugent’s review of Rodrigo performing at London’s Eventim Apollo earlier this year, she writes: “Like her voice, which can modulate between the gossamer whisper of misty-eyed balladry and the squall of early Noughties punk, Rodrigo’s stage presence is similarly fluid.”
Read more below:
Olivia Rodrigo makes her transportive pop-punk dream real on tour – review
Take a look back at last year’s Grammy Award winners
15:01 , Ellie Muir
It’s 45 minutes until the nominations are announced (3.45pm UK time). Let’s take a look back at last year’s winners...
If you cast your mind back to February, you might remember the shock that surrounded the Best Album winner. Harry Styles took home the trophy with his third album, Harry’s House, but members of the audience were heard shouting Beyoncé’s name, since many believed she was snubbed in that category.
Nevertheless, Beyoncé became the most awarded artist in the history of the Grammys, after winning in four separate categories for tracks on her celebratory album Renaissance. Meanwhile, Viola Davis became the third Black woman in history to achieve EGOT status, after she won a Grammy for her performance of the audiobook for her memoir Finding Me at the Premiere Ceremony.
Lizzo won Best Record for her song “About Damn Time” and Adele won Best Pop Solo Performance for “Easy On Me”.
Take a look back at last year’s winners:
The full list of winners at this year’s Grammys
Who’s going to be nominated?
15:30 , Ellie Muir
The Independent’s music editor Roisin O’Connor shares her predictions below:
Who’s going to be nominated for the 2024 Grammy Awards?
The nominations are starting...
15:57 , Ellie Muir
Best Pop Dance Recording
16:07 , Ellie Muir
Bebe Rexha & David Guetta - “One in a Million”
Calvin Harris Featuring Ellie Goulding - “Miracle”
David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray - “Baby Don’t Hurt Me”
Kylie Minogue - “Padam Padam”
Troye Sivan - “Rush”
Best Pop Solo Performance nominations
16:08 , Ellie Muir
As we expected, it’s a female affair...
Billie Eilish - “What Was I Made For?”
Doja Cat - “Paint the Town Red”
Miley Cyrus - “Flowers”
Olivia Rodrigo - “Vampire”
Taylor Swift - “Anti-Hero”
Best R&B Album nominations are in...
16:09 , Ellie Muir
Babyface - Girls Night Out
Coco Jones - What I Didn’t Tell You
Emily King - Special Occasion
Summer Walker - Clear 2: Soft Life EP
Victoria Monét - Jaguar II
Best R&B Performance nominations...
16:10 , Ellie Muir
Chris Brown - “Summer Too Hot”
Coco Jones - “ICU”
Robert Glasper Featuring Sir & Alex Isley - “Back to Love”
SZA - “Kill Bill”
Victoria Monét - “How Does It Make You Feel”
Song of the Year nominations are in...
16:14 , Ellie Muir
It’s not surprising to see two Barbie: The Album songs in there!
Here are the Grammy nominees for Song of the Year:
Billie Eilish - “What Was I Made For?”
Dua Lipa - “Dance the Night”
Jon Batiste - “Butterfly”
Lana Del Rey - “A&W”
Miley Cyrus - “Flowers”
Olivia Rodrigo - “Vampire”
SZA - “Kill Bill”
Taylor Swift - “Anti-Hero”
Ice Spice, Fred Again... and Gracie Abrams among Best New Artist nominees
16:16 , Ellie Muir
Best New Artist nominees:
Coco JonesGracie AbramsFred Again..Ice SpiceJelly RollNoah KahanVictoria MonétThe War and Treaty
Taylor Swift, SZA and Miley Cyrus all among Record of the Year nominees
16:18 , Ellie Muir
Here is the full list of Record of the Year nominees:
Billie Eilish - “What Was I Made For?”
Boygenius - “Not Strong Enough”
Jon Batiste - “Worship”
Miley Cyrus - “Flowers”
Olivia Rodrigo - “Vampire”
SZA - “Kill Bill”
Taylor Swift - “Anti-Hero”
Victoria Monét - “On My Mama”
SZA is the most nominated artist this year
16:20 , Ellie Muir
The “Kill Bill” musician is the most nominated artist this year, being among the Album of the Year, Best Record, Best Song, Best R&B Performance and Best Melodic Rap Performance for her album SOS.
Album of the Year nominations in full:
16:25 , Ellie Muir
Boygenius - The Record
Janelle Monáe - The Age of Pleasure
Jon Batiste - World Music Radio
Lana Del Rey - Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
Miley Cyrus - Endless Summer Vacation
Olivia Rodrigo - Guts
SZA - SOS
Taylor Swift - Midnights
“I’m Just Ken” from the Barbie soundtrack gets a nomination!
16:28 , Ellie Muir
Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” made the list of nominees for Best Song Written for Visual Media, along with three more tracks from the Barbie film...
Here’s the full list:
Billie Eilish - “What Was I Made For?”Dua Lipa - “Dance the Night”Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice Featuring Aqua - “Barbie World”Rihanna - “Lift Me Up”Ryan Gosling - “I’m Just Ken”
Taylor Swift breaks the record for the most nominated Song Of The Year in Grammy history
16:31 , Ellie Muir
Taylor Swift has broken the record for the most nominations for any person in the Song of the Year category in Grammy history.
“Anti-Hero” brings Swift back to the Song of the Year category, which she is very familiar with by now...
Barbie: The Album dominates Best Song Written for Visual Media category
16:57 , Nicole Vassell
In terms of songs written for films, all eyes are on Barbie: the soundtrack album for the hit film has received four of five nominations.
As well as Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken”, nominees include Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?”, “Dance the Night” by Dua Lipa and the infectious “Barbie World” by Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice featuring Aqua.
The only non-Barbie-affiliated song in the category is “Lift Me Up” by Rihanna for Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever.
Despite all the love the Grammy committee has shown Barbie: The Album, for The Independent’s reviewer Adam White, is was reminiscent of the film, in that it “can’t decide on a consistent tone or approach, instead ping-ponging between satire and celebration, sincerity and spoof”. Eek!
Here’s the review in full:
The Barbie soundtrack is as erratic as the movie that inspired it – review
Who’s nominated for Album of the Year?
17:24 , Nicole Vassell
In case you missed it, here are your potential winners for Album of the Year – seven of eight slots are for female artists, with Jon Batiste being the only man nominated...
Midnights - Taylor Swift
SOS - SZA
World Music Radio - Jon Batiste
The record - Boygenius
ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION - Miley Cyrus
Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd - Lana Del Rey
The Age Of Pleasure - Janelle Monáe
GUTS - Olivia Rodrigo
When and where are the 2024 Grammys?
17:35 , Nicole Vassell
If you’ve not yet heard all the songs and albums up for music’s biggest award, don’t you worry! You have until 4 February 2024 to get in the know.
The ceremony will take place at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
Who is Victoria Monét?
17:55 , Nicole Vassell
One of this year’s most nominated artists is singer-songwriter Victoria Monét, with an impressive seven nods.
Though this isn’t her first time at the Grammy rodeo, having previously been nominated for her songwriting skills on tracks such as Ariana Grande’s “7 rings”, Monét is appearing for the first time as a solo artist.
Her nominations this year include Best New Artist, Best R&B Performance (”How Does it Make You Feel?”) and Best R&B Album for Jaguar II, released in August.
However, one of her most exciting nominations is for Record of the Year for “On My Mama” – its music video went viral earlier this year for its irresistible Noughties-inspired choreography.
Check out the music video below...
Who run the Grammys? Girls!
18:15 , Nicole Vassell
The 2024 Grammy nominations mark a real pivotal moment for women in music, as women and female duo/groups have dominated across all categories.
In the lineups for Song, Record and Album of the Year, seven of eight nominations are for women.
SZA leads the pack with nine nominations in total, while Victoria Monét and Phoebe Bridgers follow with seven.
Taylor Swift received six nominations this time around and has broken the record for the most Song of the Year nominations of all time with “Anti-Hero”.
This year, Jon Batiste is the only male performer to get six nominations or more, featuring in the Song, Record and Album of the Year categories.
The list of nominees in full
18:37 , Inga Parkel
For your convenience, Ellie Muir has created an entire list of the 2024 Grammy Award nominees.
Grammy Awards 2024: The full list of nominees
Taylor Swift broke the record for being the most-nominated artist for the Song Of The Year category
SZA leads the pack
19:00 , Inga Parkel
The “Snooze” singer-songwriter, 34, has been nominated for a total of nine awards in several of the top categories, including Album of the Year, Best Record, Best Song, Best R&B Performance and Best Melodic Rap Performance, all for her album SOS.
Phoebe Bridgers, Victoria Monét and mixing engineer Serban Ghenea trail behind with seven nominations a piece. Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Miley Cyrus, Jon Baptiste, Brandy Clark, Billie Eilish and Jack Antoff are all tied at six each.
Read more:
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Miley Cyrus and father Billy Ray Cyrus make father-daughter Grammy history
19:15 , Inga Parkel
Miley Cyrus and her father Billy Ray Cyrus have now become the third-ever father-daughter duo to have separately earned nominations for Record of the Year.
The 30-year-old singer landed her first nomination in the category for her hit track “Flowers”, which will compete against songs by Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Jon Baptiste, Lana Del Rey, Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift for the category.
Billy, 62, has also received two nominations for Record of the Year in the past, for his 1992 “Achy Breaky Heart” and 2018 bop “Old Town Road”.
The only other father-daughter duos to have both earned ROTY nods include Frank and Nancy Sinatra and Nat King Cole and his daughter Natalie.
Taylor Swift smashes Grammys record with Midnights nominations
19:30 , Inga Parkel
Swift has just become the most nominated artist in the Grammy Awards’s Song of the Year category.
The pop star’s nomination for Song of the Year for “Anti-Hero” from her 2022 album Midnights has made her the first person to ever receive seven nominations in the category.
Lionel Richie and Paul McCartney previously shared the record with six nominations each.
Read more:
Taylor Swift smashes Grammys record with Midnights nominations
Swift, 33, earned six nominations ahead of this year’s ceremony
